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Jeanette Winterson is my favourite author. As sprawling as most of her novels seem to read, they never cease to amaze me in how effectively she works from the base of a character, rather than from a linear narrative. Everything she writes is so overwhelmingly rich, not least in the language, but in the way that every element is interconnected, intertwined. blah blah blah
She's a good read.
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I really liked Written on the Body when I was 15, but I think I only made it through one other of hers. I'm not sure if it's because I lost interest or I didn't like it or what, though. WOTB was good.
I absolutely ADORED her in my late teens, especially Written on The Body too. And Art And Lies but thinking back I only remember certain sections with any clarity, like the way she describes watching the girl her protagonist is in love with eating soup through the window of her house. And the giant Library of Alexandria where they employed young boys to go climbing the shelves for certain books, and they'd be gone for days, sleeping on the shelves. The Passion had some great moments too.
Oranges are not the only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry and The Passion are pretty breathtaking in their approach.. Though i think one of the later ones, Lighthousekeeping has been the most affecting on me of late.
is an interest in jeanette winterson a teenager thing?
Well, she seems to be well recognised enough as a writer for adults, so I'd say probably not. Although I think her intensity is especially appealing to younger people; when I think of old farts reading books, I'm thinking dry.
I haven't followed her later work, but I guess she was a respected author that I know I felt older for reading, plus I actually understood them, though Sexing The Cherry was kind of confusing when it got all Victorian farce. She would explore emotions and people in this way that was so fresh and approachable. It was just exciting losing yourself in her worlds where there would be varying degrees of fantasy built into these very realistic worlds; Venetians with webbed feet etc.
yeah, that's exactly how i feel.
Its really such intense, emotionally involved writing, i can see why i'm coming to it very warmly right now.
i have only read lighthousekeeping but i really loved it. i want to read her other stuff too.
that book of short stories is worthwhile.
I loved Written On The Body when it came out
Not revisted it, but recall it was wonderfully sensuous writing
Dipped into a few others since, but they've not stayed with me in the same way
she has a new one coming out called the stone gods
also, i enjoy all the stuff she writes on her website.. and there is rather large volume
It's been out for quite some time.
Just chipping in here to say I really dislike her. She's extremely conceited and a bit naive about how good/inventive she is in real life, and that comes through in her writing.
The end.
oh! how embarrassing. i'd better get it then.
Have only ever read ''Oranges are not the only fruit'', and it was when I was a kid, but I found it pretty boring.
I've seen it around. It's her far future science fiction novel that's not science fiction. So she claims.
haha, take your bitterness away! it is eroding my wide-eyes, earnest, teenage innocence.
so i finally had a bit of a read of the stone gods. i kind of see what you, and everyone else i've talked to is saying about it.. but i still kind of enjoy how ridiculous it is.